STATEGIC PLAN OF THE NETWORK for the years 2000-2002

During the network meeting in Denmark in March, 2000 the project
partners created the strategic plan of the network. The strategic plan seeks to provide a
clear purpose and directions for the next two years. It will be used to determinate the
impact and outcomes of the network as well as define and distribute responsibility of all
partners of the project including and new partners from Spain, Hungary and Estonia. The
plan will provide the framework for the dissemination of the project outcomes and
development of the national policies in non-formal adult education for disadvantaged
women.

Activities:

The strategic plan are created with the purpose of ensuring gender
equality in the labour market, promoting better co-operation and understanding among the
adult education organisations in Europe working with women’s employment issues, and
developing a training system with the lifelong learning perspective to foster active
citizenship and enhance employability for unemployed and socio-disadvantaged women. The
initial objectives of the network activities will be to extend by promotion innovation in
learning provisions for women. The Open Distance Learning (ODL) package for the
self-training on mobility program will be created including CD-ROMs and video-collection
To increase women’s capacity to play a full and active role in society, an additional
part of the mobility-training program will be created. This part will concern the
promotion of women’s human rights and facilitation of women’s participation in the
monitoring and reviewing of the State’s obligations regarding gender equality policy in
the labour market and in social life.

During the second and third year (2000-2002) of the project, the
following activities will be organised:

Activities

Planned
deadline

1. Extending the network by including new partners:
Spain and Hungary during the second year and Estonia during the third year. Establishing
Internet connections and developing a plan for the dissemination of the project’s
results to the new partners.

2000.10
2001.10 (EE)

2. Translating the prepared mobility-training program
handbook into national languages. Printing twenty copies of the handbook in all of the
national languages (Estonia in the third year).

2000.11
2001.11 (EE)

3. Promoting awareness of the prepared handbook by
organising one-day seminars at the national level for trainers (Estonia in the third
year).

2001.01
2001.11 (EE)

4. Developing the comparative analyses of women’s
situations in partner-countries on the basis of official statistical information on gender
equality in the labour market and in family life:

4.2 Updating the content of the booklet on the Internet by including
information on the new partner countries in the project: Spain and Hungary during the
second year and Estonia during the third year.

2001.01
2001.12 (EE)

5.Organizing a videoconference (four hours) in
Lithuania to disseminate the first year’s project results and promoting awareness about
outcomes for the second and third year.

2000.11

6. Creating the Open Distance Learning (ODL) package
in English as a methodical part to the mobility-training program for self- training.

2001.05

6.1 Organising a one-day seminar “ ODL Using CD-ROMs as an Effective
Tool for Self- Training”.

2000.11

6.2 Running a two-day network meeting to divide the responsibilities
and to discuss the content of the ODL package (including CD-ROM and video collection).
Creating two working groups (five country representatives in each group) which will be
responsible for one module of the ODL package belonging to the concrete parts of the
mobility-training program. Videoconference, meeting and seminar will take place at Kaunas
University of Technology, Kaunas Regional Distance Education Center (KRDEC), Lithuania.

2000.11

6.3 Developing and selecting the practical exercises and tests for
CD-ROM through Internet online discussion.

2002.11-2001.03

6.4 Organising three days of meetings of the working groups for the
final approval of the selected practical exercises and tests of the developed module and
the content and design of the CD-ROM (one working group will meet in Odence, Denmark and
another in Assen, The Netherlands).

2001.02-03

6.5 Collecting and preparing the full version of the CD-ROM, including
both modules in Word 97 format and distributing to all partners through Internet.

2001.03

6.6 Evaluating the content of the CD-ROM by experts and by women’s
groups at the community level and receiving feedback. Approving the final version of the
ODL course through Internet.

2001.05

6.7 Designing and programming the CD-ROM by KRDEC in Kaunas. Evaluation
of the ODL course by experts.

2001.06

6.8 Producing and copying the CD-ROM (KRDEC in Kaunas). Distributing
five copies of the CD-ROM to all partner organisations.

2001.06

6.9 Selecting the video plot (5-10 minutes) relative to the mobility
training module in all partner countries and creating the titles in English. Preparing a
short description of the videotape’s content in Word 97 format on diskette. Distributing
the videotape and description to all partner countries to create a video collection as an
additional methodical tool to the ODL package.

2001.01-06

6.10 Running a four-day workshop “Mobility Training Using the ODL
Package Is an Important Part of Non- Formal Education for Unemployed Women to Increase
Their Self-Esteem and Enhance Their Employability”.

A Workshop will take place in Hungary, Budapest.

2001.06

7. Promoting awareness through mass media, existing
networks, and the community about the second year’s project outcomes. Updating the
Network Homepage. Recruiting new members for the network and updating the data bank for
the network members.

During 2001

8. Creating Tele-reporting in Lithuania about the
network’s activities, the project’s outcomes and future activities. Creating English
translation and distributing to all partner countries with the possibility of showing the
report through national or local television or at the community level in their countries.

2001.10

9. Translating to the national languages the content
of the CD-ROM of the self-education module of the mobility-training program. Evaluation of
the content of the CD-ROM by experts and by women’s groups at the community level and
receiving feedback.

2001.11

10. Producing the CD-ROM in the national languages (in
Kaunas), copying and distributing to all partners (ten copies for each partner country).

2001.02

11. Organising pilot training for twenty unemployed
women in Kaunas using the CD-ROM. Evaluation of the course by experts.

2001.02

12. Promoting awareness of the prepared self-training
module on CD-ROM by organising a one-day seminar at the national level for tutors.

2001.03

13. Creating an additional part of the mobility
training program concerning the promotion of women’s human rights with special emphasis
on various kinds of discrimination against women in the labour market.

2001.08

13.1 Organising a working meeting of experts from all partner countries
to develop the content of the training module and to establish ways of creating the
training module and adopting it to each country’s needs. A meeting will take place in
Spain in October 2001.

2001.11

13.2 Developing the draft version of the training module and the
handbook in English, including the list of the most important international laws and
documents protecting women’s rights and the women’s human rights on-line site
directory.

2001.12

13.3 Organising a three-week on-line discussion through Internet on the
content of the training model and handbook. Evaluation by experts. Final approval of the
prepared product.

2002.01

13.4 Preparing the final version of the handbook on diskette and
distributing to all partners through Internet.

2002.03

13.5 Printing at least ten copies of the English version of the
handbook in each partner country. Distributing the handbook to the new members of the
network in each country.

2002.04

13.6 Translating the developed handbook to the national languages,
adapting to each country’s needs. Printing twenty copies of the handbook in each
country. Organising the evaluation of the handbook at the community level and receiving
feedback. Distributing handbook to the new members of the network.

2002.05

13.7 Designing and programming the CD-ROM about the developed training
module on women’s human rights. Including on the CD-ROM the texts of national laws on
gender equality, the Convention of the Elimination of all kinds of Discrimination Against
Women (CEDAW), and the directory of the international sites on women’s human rights in
English. Evaluation of the ODL package by experts.

2002.06

13.8 Producing and copying the CD-ROM (in Kaunas). Distributing ten
copies of the CD-ROM to all partners.

2002.06

13.9 Evaluation of the CD-ROM in all countries. Distributing to new
members of the network in each country.

2002.06

13.10 Organising the workshop for trainers using the developed training
module and ODL package.

2002.06

13.11 Organising a round table discussion of experts and
representatives from the Estonian national authorities and leaders of women’s NGOs to
raise the critical issues on women’s rights in the labour market. Sharing of good
practices to implement temporary special measures (“positive discrimination”) to
eliminate the discrimination against women in the labour market. Preparing the
recommendation to the national governments to implement the special temporary measures to
promote equality in the labour market. A workshop and round table discussion will take
place in Tallinn, Estonia.

2002.06

13.12 Organise the pilot training for twenty unemployed women in Kaunas
under the developed training module.

2002.07

13.13 Promoting awareness of the prepared handbook and CD-ROM by
organising a one-day seminar at the national level for trainers.

2002.07

14. Updating the home page with the project’s
outcomes and the recommendations of the round table discussion.

2002.08

15. Recruiting new members of the network in the
partner countries, updating the database.

During 2001-2002

16. Publishing the Network’s activities for
unemployed and disadvantage women (in the second and third year of activities) in a
leaflet in English to present to the Network.